re: Brilliant article from Wafb/CBS about the horrible side effects of Toys R’ Us closing

Here's the thing about price matching, frick that on a $20 toy. On a $500 tv sure, but I'm not wasting my time at customer service to price match a $19.99 toy that's $14.99 at target.

TRU was expensive. If your listed prices are jacked up as a business decision but you price match well that's just a business decision and you get what comes of it.

Now I will say, I had to drive 60 minutes to go to the one near us for some baby stuff. I don't remember what it was, but they had a bunch of stuff no one else did for newborns 4-5 years ago. Maybe that was before we used Amazon though.

Toys R Us came up yesterday with someone who also has children, our kids are teenagers, but we couldn't really remember the last time we went into a Toys R Us, and I think we came up with about 3-4 max each when our kids were younger. The world isn't what it was a generation or more ago. Even kids are attached to tech now, so I think most of the time kids don't need to touch and feel something to know they want it when they can find it online.

I am also a huge user of Amazon so I may have been part of it's demise, but you know what, I'm ok with it. I don't buy into the smaller manufacturers not being able to get into the marketplace, there are several items I have gotten online that are not in stores from small brands and the flip side of the argument is stores can't stock all products, and online shopping is a better way for consumers and businesses to reach each other.

Lastly, I come from a family who owns retail business to this day. Has online shopping effected my parent's business, of course, but you have to adapt and be innovative.

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Here's the thing about price matching, frick that on a $20 toy. On a $500 tv sure, but I'm not wasting my time at customer service to price match a $19.99 toy that's $14.99 at target.

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All of this is done at the register and you 9/10 times just have to pull up amazon's app with the toy / product and a manager would come override. I did probably 10000 in the 4.5 years at BBY

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All of this is done at the register and you 9/10 times just have to pull up amazon's app with the toy / product and a manager would come override. I did probably 10000 in the 4.5 years at BBY

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But you were a manager right? Going to the register and waiting on a manager is a pita too.

TRU also had horrendous customer service and almost no employees from what I remember. The stores were very dated compared to a Best Buy.

I'm simply saying now a days Best Buy prices are basically listed as price matched. I pull up a microwave and it's the same at Best Buy, lowes, Home Depot, Walmart, etc. Unless there's a big sale or something.

TRU was gouging unless you price matched.

I have an almost 6 year old and a 2 year old and we haven't been in a Toys R Us since either of the two kids were born. We have more toys than we know what to do with.

The great consolidation of stores and product categories rolls on.

The impact is more expensive goods, and less variety and innovation. Toys are just one example.

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Did toys r us price match?

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Yes. And they would match Amazon too...as long as the item was sold directly by Amazon and not a 3rd party vendor on their site.

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"I call Amazon our kryptonite," local toy store owner Steve Presser says. "It takes the whole fun out of the shopping experience."

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"I call the Ford Model T our Kryptonite," local blacksmith Steve Presser says. "It takes the whole fun out of the travelling experience."

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It's not the 1940's anymore. These places deserve to die for their lack of evolving with the times.

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That's bullshite. Sure times have changed, technology has evolved. But a child's amazement in a toy store has never changed.